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January Subscription Coffee: Uraga (Natural)
Jan 14, 2020
Read more →Our first subscription filter coffee of 2020 comes to us from the Guji region in Oromia, southern Ethiopia. The Uraga is a delectably floral natural filter, sorted and processed at the Uraga washing station, from way...
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A New Elephant in Town: Say Hello to Five Elephant KaDeWe Berlin!
Nov 27, 2019
We're delighted to announce our collaboration with Berlin's largest luxury department store, KaDeWe, by opening a brand new Five Elephant location on the store's premises. Opening at the end of November 2019 on the building's 6th floor, our new location will include both a cafe, designed along the lines of our Berlin-Mitte shop, and our very first retail shop, which we are very excited about.Read more → -
Kenya Journals (Part 2)
Dec 25, 2017
Read more →Kenya Journals by Kris Schackmann - Five Elephant's co-founder and green coffee buyer. With the previous blog post we've started a series of journal entries on Five Elephant's sourcing trips to Kenya last couple of years. To read Part...
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Kenya Journals (Part 1)
Dec 22, 2017
In December 2017 we went to Kenya, and brought back some coffee that we are exclusively serving in our cafes now. However, there’s a longer story of why we went to origin, that we would like to tell.Read more → -
Barista Hustle Superlatives Subscription - Kalita
Apr 26, 2017
Read more →In this video, we will show you how we brew our Brazil - Obata Filter Coffee with a Kalita. Join Latvian Barista and Cup Tasting Champion Jānis Podiņš for this short tutorial. METHODOLOGY•Rinse paper filter...
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Barista Hustle Superlatives Subscription - Roasting
Apr 26, 2017
Read more →Join Five Elephant's Head Roaster Wojciech Białczak as he quite briefly discusses the circumstances surrounding the roasting of the 10 x 12kg batches that we roasted of this Brazil Nova Canaã coffee that we provided...
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Barista Hustle Superlatives Subscription - AeroPress
Apr 26, 2017
Read more →In this video, we will show you how we brew our Brazil - Obata Filter Coffee with an AeroPress. Join German Barista and AeroPress Champion Chloe Nattrass for this short tutorial. Methodology: •Attach clean filter...
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Barista Hustle Superlatives Subscription - Water
Apr 25, 2017
Read more →Join Five Elephant's resident water chemist Ian Johnston as he specs our shops water in Berlin and discusses how to make simple adjustments to your water at home to get the most out of our...
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Novo Canaa Obata - A History
Mar 26, 2017
Read more →Compiled from the notes of Felipe Croce of Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza -------------------------------------------------- Obatã is a varietal developed at the IAC (Instituto de Agronomia de Campinas) in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo. This...
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Brazil - New Techniques In Processing
Feb 17, 2017
Read more →Now that our Brazil roasting season is in full swing, we would like to share a bit more information on our coffees. As we discussed in our last post, Felipe Croce has been experimenting on...
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Brazil Production Update 2016/2017
Feb 12, 2017
Read more →In 2010 we founded our company because we had a love for coffee and cake. Within a few months, we realized that the green coffee we were purchasing from Hamburg was not as good as...
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Five Elephant Update 2017
Jan 19, 2017
Read more →A lot has happened since 2013 when our last "Story" post went up on our site. With social media advancing every month we started to communicate more with channels like Instagram and Facebook. However it...
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Our Coffee Roasting Philosophy.
Mar 24, 2013
In the next weeks, we plan on writing a bit about our philosophy for roasting, brewing and sourcing our coffee. Since we have this platform to explain these things, we want to start the dialogue. Our new website make this much easier and hopefully will help our customers understand what our coffee Roastery is all about.Read more → -
Joao Hamilton, from Sítio Canaã, Brazil
Feb 02, 2013
Read more →In 2012 we met up with our partner producers from Brazil at the Nordic Roasters Forum in Stockholm, Sweden. Joao Hamilton, from Sítio Canaã and Felipe Croce from Fazenda Ambiental Fortaleza were invited to talk about how they approach working directly with roasters.
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A visit to Chemex - Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Jan 25, 2013
Read more →In January 2013, we made a trip to Pittsfield, Massachusetts to visit the home of Chemex coffee makers.
